RoboCup at AAAI-15

RoboCup at AAAI-15

AAAI and the RoboCup Federation are pleased to announce a cooperation
to bring a RoboCup soccer exhibition match to AAAI-15.

The RoboCup competitions have promoted research on artificial
intelligence and robotics since 1997. One of their main foci is the
worldwide popular game of soccer, with the aim to build fully
autonomous cooperative multirobot systems that perform well in
dynamic and adversarial environments.

Given the recent expansion of interest in intelligent robotics, AAAI
and the RoboCup Federation, with the help of the National Science Foundation, are cosponsoring a
RoboCup soccer exhibition match at AAAI-15 to showcase the
state-of-the-art in robotics soccer to the broad artificial
intelligence research community and spur additional interest in this
exciting testbed for intelligent systems. The participating teams
will be UPennalizers from The University of Pennsylvania, UT Austin
Villa from the University of Texas at Austin, and rUNSWift from the
University of New South Wales. Each team won a championship at the
2014 international competition (in the Humanoid League, 3D Simulation
League, and Standard Platform League respectively). They will
demonstrate a game according to the regulations of the Standard
Platform League, in which all teams use identical Aldebaran Nao
robots.